Nebraska Newspapers

    Special Announcement !
CONFIRMATION DRESSES !
"XTg ascare -FfceToaxed. for fhls Occasion, Kritla. all tlie 3fcTeces-
Our assortment of spring dress fabrics surpass any and all previous
'efforts ever attempted in central Nebraska. "We show Brilliantines in all
colors and black.
The latest eastern craze is Brilliantines trimmed with ribbon velvet or
satin edge ribbons. Another very fashionable craze is colored Brilliantines
trimmed with silk fringe and Vandyke points.
We show elegant Brilliantines at 45c a yard in navy, serpent, sapphire,
gray, slate black, olive, etc.
Our 55c line comes in all the new shades.
Our 75c assortment is indeed very complete in all the eastern favorite
shades too numerous to mention. ...
Earlv selections is advisable.
J. JL Barber I Cj.
LEADEES
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DURIN6 THIS OCCASION WE OFFER
45 in. wide Swiss with 5 in. hemstitched at bottom for 35c a yard
worth 60c
45 in. Embroidered Flouncing in Swiss and Cambrics 49c a yard
worth 75c.
45 in. Embroidered Swiss and Mull flouncing 59c, 69c, and 79c,
with hemstitched 5 and 6 inches deep also with tucks and hand-drawn
work, also spaces for baby ribbon to pass through it; these goods are
very fashionable this season. We also show allovere to match at 35c,
49c and 59c a yard a great bargain.
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We have just opened an ELEGANT LINE of
NEW SPRING
Stockenette Jackets, Beaded Wraps
ISTD CAPES.
All wool English Stockenette Jackets X0, worth $5.00.
All wool English Serge Walking Jackets $:l.0O, actual value 84.50.
English Walking Jackets, tailor hound throughout, oulv $M. Thn
is a rare bargaiu and well worth 87.50.
. .Ottoman Silk Beaded Capes SS.M. lt bargain in Xebraska, worth.
So.oO.
Ottoman Silk Beaded Wraps, satin lined 85.00, Cliieago price $8.50.
WReraember that we offer none but new anil fashionable garments of
the latest styles direct from the factory.
J JBL
ARBER CO.
Oirlsrlnciitors
SATINES BARGAINS,
150 pieces of American satines all new designs
and choice colorings at 1 2c a yard. No two wit
terns alike.
;' French satines, satin finish, in elegant designs
only 23c a, yard.
The very best imported French satines: Pat
terns confined exclusively to us, 35c a yard. Chi
cago prices 40c, these patterns and effects cannot
be duplicated this season.
Make your selections early and secure the very
best styles.
J. A. Barber & CO., Columbus, Neb.
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WEDNESDAY. MAIICH 12, 10.
Sevebe snow storms wero reported
last week in England and various por
tions of Europe
House committee on agriculture at
Washington was hearing arguments last
week on "compound lard."
Kentucky is keeping tip her record in
fine shape. Last week six men -were
killed in Bell county, alone.
At the Emmet celebration held in
Lincoln March 4th, S2,(KK) was raised for
the benefit of the Farnell fund.
The legislature of Iowa,ou March 4th,
re-elected Allison to the United States
senate by a handsome majority.
Col. J. M. Dokaiiue, president of the
San Francisco & North Pacific railroad,
died at San Francisco, Cal., March 3.
The secretary of the treasury has pur
chased $2,000,000 in bonds, thereby re
ducing the surplus to about $28,000,000.
The Farmers' and Mechanics' bank
building at Red Cloud, Neb., was burned
the other night. Property valued at
$5,000.
John M. Thurston was again elected
president of the republican league clubs
at NashvilIe,"Tenn., amid great enthusiasm.
Wassox, a saloonkeeper, killed a rail
road man the other night at Valhe Sta
tion, Cal., and was afterwards hanged
bv a mob.
Wr. have a special invitation to at
tend a re-union of the Blue and the Gray
at Vicksbnrg, Miss., May 2Tth to aOth.
The sentiment lying at the foundation
of this re-union is commendable, and we
hope that the assembly will be large
and that they may have a unanimously
good time after the fashion of brave men
who fought against each other for a
principle, and who can now, twenty-five
years after the controversy, come to
gether and truly rejoice that ''it is as well
with ns as it is.' There are, undoubted
ly, a good many matters that need the
attention of the country, and that must
receive it very speedily if the rights of
the body of the people are to lw pre
served, and the sooner all old questions
can lie settled settled on the basis of
justice, the letter it will foe all of ns.
Let the old soldiers get together and
after they have considered somewhat the
times of the war, let them confer with
each other as to the questions now up
permost this is the best way to bring
the ends of the count rv together. Make
present necessities, present opportunities
of strengthening our liberties, present
difficulties to bo overcome, the talk by
day and the dream by night, sp that
good men and true everywhere may not
be at a disadvantage, in the struggle of
life, as against the criminals whose deeds
make taxes a burden, and cormorant
corporations, syndicates and trusts, that,
by their combinations of capital, prey
upon tho community, almost without
hindrance. Dr. Franklin once remarked
in reply to a question, that the people
wero all right in their intentions, but
the trouble with them is that they are
not so persistent as they ought to be,
they don't continue. But people are
learning, and since Franklin's time great
improvement has been made in this re-
spMt, The grim and forcible pun of a
revolutionary patriot when signing the
Declaration of Independence that "we
must all hang together or we'll havo to
hang separately," is just as appropriate
today as it was then.
much worse. Mr. Reed has two of the
principal requisites to make a success
ful president brains and back-bone.
The memlters of the senate in their at
tempts to discover where and how the
newspater men get the reports of the
proceedings in executive sessions are
furnishing a heap of fun for the news
paper men without gaining any informa
tion. If all the senators attendant upon
an executive session were locked up for
twenty-four hours afterwards it would
by perfectly safe to bet that the newspa
pers of thehext day would not have the
proceedings of that session.
The Three Americas congress has
adopted a resolution recommending the
appointment of a commission to examine
and report upon the feasibility of build
ing a railroad to connect the three
Americas, and Representative Buckalew
has introduced in the house a joint reso
lution authorizing the president to have
an examination made and to report the
result to congress.
The bill providing for an assistant
secretary of war has passed both house
and senate and has gone to the president
for his approval.
HOME INDUSTRIES.
Edwin Cowi.es, editor of tho Cleve
land Leader, died at his home in Cleve
land, Ohio, on tho morning or March
4th, aged C years.
- Gov. Thatch .has appointed J. D.
Stines, of Cedar Rapids, Neb., a delegate
to the cattlemen's convention to be held
at Fort Worth, Texas, March 11th.
Mr. Sweet of Merrick county has lieen
recommended for appointment as regis
ter of the Grand Island land office and
Mr. Hall of Scotia to bo receiver.
One morning last week the large
wooden structure built at Plattsmoutu,
Neb., for the electrical exposition, was
burned to the ground. The building'
was valued at $2,000.
Absconded with $60,000.
William H. Poo, teller of the Louis
ville City (Ky.) National bank, absconded
with $00,000 of tho bank's cash in his
possession. Nothing has since been
heard of him. It is supposed that he is
now in Canada. The bank will not be
inconvenienced by its loss, which will
amount to not more than $40,000, as Poe
furnished a bond of $20,000.
A bank robber, supposed to bear the
name of Robertson, was shot and killed
by officers the other morning at Meriden,
Kan. Ho robbed the Valley Falls bank.
In attempting to visit the officers, two
balls fired at tho same moment, from
Enfield rifles, took effect and closed out
his wicked life.
Abraham, son of Hoi it. E. Lincoln
minister to England, died last Wednes
day. He had been ailing for a long time
and died from the effects of an operation
upon him for a carbuncle under the arm.
lie was in his nineteenth vear.
The remains of Hon. George Pendle
ton, late United States minister to Ger
many, have been shipped from New
York to Cincinnati, and the funeral was
to take place last Saturday.
Two little children of Frank Willard,
'living near Albion, Ia while playing
with a can of lye, one of them got some
in her eyes and mouth; her tongue and
both eyes were eaten out, and she will
die.
Andrew Bbowdeb, a young farmer
living near Albion, Neb., one day last
week while up fixing his wind-mill was
either knocked or fell to the ground
from the mill tower, breaking both hip
bones terribly.
The supreme court at Washington
last week confirmed the opinion of the
supreme court of Mississippi, holding
that the state had the power to compel
railroad companies to provide within the
state, accommodations for two races of
people. Two state courts, and now the
supreme court of the United States have
passed upon the question, all agreeing
in judgment.
WiishiiiEton letter.
From our regular iorrtpondenr.
The president is understood to lie tak
ing a great deal of interest in the inves
tigation of the civil service commission
now going on here, and there is reason
to lelieve that the resignation of at least
one member of the present lioard will,
as a consequence, lie asked for at an
early day if it is not tendered voluntari
ly. Up to the time that Shidy, a con
fessed perjurer and the man who was
given a position in the census office here
for turning state's evidence against the
postmaster at Milwaukee, was put on
the witness stand, Commissioner Lyman
was the only sufferer, but Shidy made it
plain that all three of them are in the
Their IaperUace to the Geaeral Jablic tke
Keanoa Why they Shoald be Sustained.
In accordance with our announced
purpose of giving each week, in full, one
of the papers read at the recent farmers'
institute, we publish this week that of
D. Schupbach. Owing to the illness of
Mr. S., his partner,. Jaeggi, read the pa
per and answered the questions that
came up, which he did in a very effective
way.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Farmers of
Matte county, Aeo., ana Citizens of
Columbus:
In making out the program for your
Farmers Institute, your committee had
the kindness to compliment our firm as
resident representatives of one of our
home industries, that of milling, by
allotting the necessary time to read be
fore you a paper on "Support of Home
Industries and Consumption of Home
Products." This .subject may be a
rather dry and sober one, but neverthe
less it must be looked upon as one most
important and timely to be brought to
the kind attention of this institute. It
is perfectly safe to say that nearly every
town in our fertile, well-cultivated and
rich state of Nebraska, assisted and en
couraged by a liberal and intelligent
farming community, is making extraor
dinary efforts to attract capital and es
tablish industries and wholesale estab
lishments of all kinds in their midst,
being fully aware of their great import
ance. Some of these towns offer large
financial aid, in the shape of a bonus; in
fact they all do their utmost to get
something in the shape of an industry,
of which they are sure of a great lienefit,
In this line cities like Omaha, Lincoln.
Nebraska City, Beatrice, Hastings,Grand
Island, Kearney, Fremont, Seward and
many smaller ones, have accomplished
a great deal. And while some are per
haps booming a little beyond their
natural limits and resources, still the
fact is undeniable that they are live and
wide-awake communities, prospering to
a great extent and being fully repaid for
their efforts in getting and supporting
home industries well knowing that if
the latter are prosperous they them
selves will prosper, their city real estate
and farming lands also commanding a
higher range of prices, besides being ma
terially benefited by creating a home
market for nearly all the home products.
dustries and their support here at home.
nestaes our iair cuy or. uoinmnus Hav
ing all the modern improvements, such
as waterworks, electric lights, telephone
system, street cars, and three good,
wide-awake papers among them a very
good daily all of whioh are worthy of,
aiid Bhonld receive, our most liberal and
unanimous support, we find, besides,
good and well-conducted hotels, stores
of all descriptions, coal and lumber
yards, elevators, and the following,
which might oome duly under the head
of "home industries:'' One windmill
factory, one creamery, one wooden shoe
factory, one large and well-equipped
with even thing and everybody. A sav
ing, we will say, of five cents a sack to
the consumer, in buying other than
home- made flour, is a trifling matter
compared with the corresponding de
pression it helps to produce for this very
wheat in a largely agricultural state,
which, as a matter of course, is depend
ent for its prosperityon the good price
its agricultural products bring to the
the producer.
To illustrate what a well-patronized
flouring mill can pay for wheat, I have
figured out the following table to show
how a good mill, that does not have to
compete with everything and every
body, especially in the line of cheap
winter wheat flour, can do and will do:
If best patent flour, per hundred, brings
$2i0, wholesale, 00 cents ier bushel
should be the price of wheat, in $2.30,
.72 cents, $2.29, 48 cents; $2.10, 44 cents.
Five bushels of wheat as it comes from
the fanner's hands, equal one barrel of
flour. Above prices can be paid by mills
which have not been so fortunate as to
be subsidized by a large bonus or bonds,
with which other Nebraska points have
generously equipped their mills.
Your two home mills which, as said
before, rank among the best, and com
pletest in the state, and were built with
out a cent donation from the public,
asked for nothing but the good will and
fair support of the public. Remember
what Fnllerton did for their mill, voted
$7,000 for the restoration of the water
power destroyed by flood last summer!
Remember the action of the business
men of O'Neil! On the night following
the burning of their mill they pledged
$5,000, with as much more to come, to
assist the proprietor in rebuilding. We
say, if such mills and industries of like
nature are so desirable, they are certain
ly grandly worth sustaining, and par
ticularly industries which were erected
for the benefit of the community, free of
expense to the public. Interference
with their success and progress, by self
ish, unwarranted and entirely out of
place opposition and competition by
home dealers, should not be tolerated.
Both mills here use from 75,000 to" 10O,
000 bushels of home grown wheat, and
have always paid a premium of from
four to six cents per bushel over and
above the legitimately warranted price
of the Chicago market.
It is easy to see the benefit of having
home mills. Nebraska is not profitably
situated for raising wheat. We are just
between the great winter wheat and
spring wheat belt, and unless our farm
ers use the utmost care in selecting pure
and uniform seed, our wheat never
comes up to the required grade of No. 2,
or the speculative grade. It is unmerci
fully subjected to "down grading," no
matter what its otherwise intrinsic val
ue might be. On wheat and its price
the home mill, if well patronized, alone
can and will help out the consumer.
While it must be admitted that the
milling industries of Nebraska far ex
ceed its consuming capacity, yet you see
onr great and grand state over-run with
flour from the south, shipped in under
much lower railroad rates than Nebraska
mills are granted by local roads for the
same distance in our state, thus forcing
Nebraska mills to curtail their output,
run on half time or less, working not
only great harm to the milling industry
of our state in general, but to the infinite
injury of Nebraska wheat growers, de
priving them of their legitimate local
and homo market. Remember that each
fifty-pound sack of foreign flour con
sumed in our community or state, dis
places one and one-fourth bushels of
home-grown wheat, thus forcing the
producer to accept the price the specu
lator and tho railroads are disposed to
dictate. Now what is the cause of all
thiB? It is, (1) lower rates in favor of
Missouri and Kansas, discriminating
against Nebraska mills; (2). the relative
lower prices of winter wheat and winter
wheat flour in the world's market.
mendable and worthy of success. It is
not long since a farmer belonging to the
Polk county Alliance told me that his
people would be satisfied if corn and oats
would always bring the minimum price
of 20 cents per bushel on the farm. This
is a very modest desire, and every fair
minded man, whatever his position in
life, should use his best efforts, in a
well-directed way, to bring about such
results.
To that end, support home industries
-j-patronize your mills and other facto
ries! If you enjoy a healthy glass of
beer, ask for Columbus beer. Our
brewery has paid, at times, almost the
Chicago price for your barley. Smoke
home-made cigars. If you can do as
well, or nearly as well, buy your grocer,
ies and dry goods of home dealers, and
so on. Everything that tends to up
build home industries is an encourage
ment and invitation for others to come
here. We need more industries from
which we would derive great benefits.
tremendous gorges, a massive wall of
rut stone was erected for a distance of
several hundred feet, and more than a
hundred feet above the foundation rock.
As the river makes an abrupt turn at
right angles, a deep canyon is opened
up for miles. Range after range of
mountains disappear behind each other.
The shadowy outlines of single peaks
steal out through the haze."
This beautiful scene is on the Balti
more and Ohio R. R. near Grafton, W.
Va. The entire line from the Potomnc
to the Ohio is a majestic panorama of
the grandest views on the continent and
all endowed with historic interest.
HENRY LUBKER
OF COLUMBUS. MIR.
Thf XatieaaJ Capital.
The city of Washington is an object of
perennial interest to all patriotic Ameri
cans. Not alone because it is the great
throbbing heart of the mightiest and
grandest republic the world has ever
Do not discourage those you have, but I known, but also on account of its ma
invite more to come. If we could make J terial magnificence. All Americans take
a great industrial and commercial center pride in its beautiful avenues, majestic
or our home town, your own prosperity! Uj . i u in
would be brought nearer reahzation. I arch,ctecture 8tatel-v homee' and weI1
Your success and prosperity goes hand ' stored galleries and museums as things
in hand with that of your home indus
tries. Our interests are identical and
inseparable. Your welfare is our wel
fare; therefore, extend your good will
and support to your home industries,
remembering the golden rule "Live and
Let Live."
Paleatiae.
Onr snow is melting fast and, accord
ing to Prof. Hicks, it is getting ready to
rain.
Carrie and Martha Hanchett have gone
to Columbus to attend the wedding or
weddings at Mr. Hnrd's on Monday.
Only a few of their very best friends are
invited.
Mr. Davis of Postville made a pleasant
call at the post office on Friday.
Mr. Fisher has rented the Kerr farm
atFairview. W. H. Gray has rented
John Abraham's farm. John will devote
his time to carpentering the coming
summer.
Tuesday seems to be an unfortunate
day for singing school as Mr. Deifenbach
has only been here one evening in six
weeks on account of sickness and
storms.
Gertrude Jones commenced teaching
a four months term of school in the
Paulson district, on Monday last.
B. S. Hick will go to the Skee Dee to
work next week.
The postmaster was in Columbus for
a few days last week, on business.
A business meeting of the Farmers
Alliance will be held at the school house
Friday evening. Dan.
of grandeur and beauty in themselves.
apart from the historic interest with
which it is invested. It is a hope and
aspiration of all "young America," at
least, to some time or other visit the cap
ital of his country.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad offers
unequaled facilities in aid of this desire.
All its through trains between New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore on the east,
and Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
Chicago on the west, pass through Wash
ington. Its fast express trains are vesti
buled from end to end and heated with
sieani. f unman s latest anu best pro
ductions in the way of sumptuous draw
ing room sleeping cars are attached to
all its through trains. The present man
agement of theB. &O. have made vast
improvements in the last two years, and
the road is today one of the foremost
passenger carrying lines in the country.
Through tickets via B. & O. By. can be
procured at all the principal ticket of
fices throughout the United States.
IS AGENT FOR THE FOLLOWING LIST
OF TIME-TRIED and APPROVED
Farm Implements!
Seeders and Harrows.
Having looked around us, we will now 1M' Zi "V .tr
o Itttla AlnflAv n4tAMlitn 4 tltA ... I ' r ..fc
l CftKU i;KiA UtKTUIIUH 1U LUD ll-
Forinstnnce,these are quotations from
e Chicago mark
day, February 15th:
Winter wheat, patent, per Itbl....
Soft sprioK, latent, (Nell, flour) .
same boat and now the iopular verdict brewery, one pop factory,.two cigar fac-
is guuty. uuiuy oi irving to uamuoozie ", one iiuuruuung nursery, one
Attobket Gexebax. Leese has ex
pressed the opinion that the salvation
of the state depends upon the action of
the state board of 'transportation in
patting a schedule of rates in effect in
this statewhich will be based on tho
.Iowa schedale and not more than 15 per
cent higher. He believes this action
will effectually settle the railroad ques
tioaia this state.
the public with reform talk while fol
lowing practices that would bring blush
es to the cheek of the most hardened
spoilsman. If this be reform the people
have had quite enough of it.
The senate committee on elections
discussed the Montana senatorial con
test on Saturday without arriving at any
conclusion, and appointed a sub-committee
Senators Hoar and Gray to
make a collection of the full committee
next Saturday.
The president of the Wes'tern Union
telegraph company made an argument
before the house post office committee
Saturday against Postmaster General
Wanamaker's postal telegraph bill.
Secretary Tracy has returned from his
hurried trip to Brooklyn. He looks
well but his extreme restlessness tells
the close observer 'that his shattered
nerves have not yet resumed their nor
mal condition.
The house has seated two more repub
licansAtkins, of West Virginia, and
Featherstone, of Arkansas. The other
contested cases are to be pushed along
as rapidly as possible.
Many republicans are beginning to
talk.np Speaker Reed as the candidate
for92. We might go further and fare
broom factory, marble works, and last,
but not least, two of the largest and
best flouring mills in the stats.
If all these things are worth having
they are worth sustaining. Farmers and
fellow citizens, support your home busi
ness and your home industries! Stay
by them! If they prosper, you will
prosper, and all will receive their share
of the general benefits. If all the home
industries do not deal in or manufacture
home products, as for instance your
mills, they nevertheless all employ a
smaller or larger number of men who are
consumers of your products and of the
goods onr business men deal in. It is
therefore very plain that the more home
industries we are able to get, the more
consumers we will concentrate in our
midst, the better our home markets will
be, and the greater our prosperity and
welfare.
There is hardly another industry that
is so closely identified with the farmer's
interests and is so essential to the suc
cess of a wheat producingfeonntrys the
milling industry, and I hope to be ex
cused, for good reason, if I draw your
aina attention to this particular in
dustry. flouring mill which is, by liberal
and united home support, enabled to
dispose very rapidly of its products at
home and aitmnd hosae, will pay the
producers a higher price for the wheat
than it will or can pay when it is forced
by indifference and Bon-support at home
to throw its products on the general
aarkett of the coutrr, tans competing
ftl.00fi4.30
4.-Ti 4..'i0
Minnesota, iMitent i.Mi 4.75
No. 1 winter wheal, in Literpoo), per
" B V Sll
xo.z spring wheat, same l.t
Third, and, not least, the greed of some
merchants to encourage the use of for
eign Hour, for their own personal gain,
regardless of the permanent injury' in
flicted by such a course on home indus
try, and of the loss to the farmer by
depressing home markets. From what
you know now about the value of winter
wheat and its products, and about dis
criminating railroad rates, it ought to be
easy for you to find a ready answer to
the business men who try to injure home
industry, from altogether selfish motives,
by talking "high and more valuable
foreign goods" to you.
A fourth cause is again found, in the
discrimination of tke railroads, and their
greediness for getting two hauls on
freight shipments, against not getting
any on home manufactured and home-
consumed goods. To illustrate one
haul on flour from Missouri or Kansas
a low rate of 28 cents per barrel and
another haul, out, of five bushels of
displaced Nebraska wheat; (enough to
make a barrel of flour) to Chicago, 87
cents, or a total oi 1,15 per barrel.
Thus each barrel of foreign flour con
sumed in Nebraska makes a gross earn
ing to the railroads of $1.15, and this
amount is directly taken out of the
pockets of the Nebraska wheat grower.
It may be said, in connection with the
above, that the rate on flour from Atchi
son to Columbus, 220 miles, is 14 cents
per hundred. The rate from Columbus
to Lincoln 70 miles, or less than one
third the distance ia 10 cents.
What I have said is a fair representa
tion of the state of affairs in our line of
home industries and is probably more or
less true of all others throughout Ne
braska. Undoubtedly this institute and
your Farmers' Union are gotten1 up for
the purpose of exchanging views and
experiences, as well as knowledge, to the
end that legitimate means may be taken
to better existing conditions. As one
means to gain your point, a generous
and strong; support of home industries is
Moiroe.
Weather cold and disagreeable, farm
work not commenced.
J. Hyatt and Ted Cartright, who have
been visiting friends in Iowa, returned
Monday evening.
B. It. Stienbaugh was a Columbus
visitor Wednesday.
Mrs. N. Godfrey of Columbus spent
Sunday with her parents here.
J. A. Zeigler, who has been visiting
his daughter in Kearney, retunned last
week. Mrs. Zeigler will remain awhile
longer.
We are sorry to learn that Isiah
Light ner is yet seriously ill.
II. Gerrard of Oconee has spent sev
eral days at this place this week, getting
his building in shape for occupancy.
C. C. Cummings will movo his grocery
store and post office into it, and the
building he occupies will probably be
nsed for a dry goods or grocery store.
There is an effort being made to di
vide this district, and form a new dis
trict, in the vicinity of J. B, Smith k
Sons.
Chaa. Newton left Wednesday to seek
his fortune in Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Cabeen visited Genoa,
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, of Herington,
Ka&, recently visited their sister, Mrs.
. S. Osborn of this place; they were
much pleased with this locality, bnt
think Kansas ahead on corn. Mr, Cooke
verified the statement, that people lost
their lives by climbine the stalks to set
the corn at the top, being often dashed
to me ground and Killed, so every
place has its drawbacks, and farming in
Kansas, although profitable, is a danger
ous business.
Our paper, the Looking Glass is to
have a serial story. t. n. x.
Db. George W. Wilkinson of Dakota
Citv has been aooointed snoerintendent
of the insane asylum at Norfolk.
Their BaMacua Roosilag.
Probably no one thing has caused
such a general revival of trade at David
Dowty'a drug store as their giving away
to their customers of so many free trial
bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for
consumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in .this very valuable article
from the fact that it always cures and
never disappoints. Coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis, croup, and all throat
and lung diseases qickly enred. Yon
can test it before buying by getting a
trial bottle free, large size $1. Every
bottle warranted.
It is stated that, carp in the ponds
near Friend have died during the winter
from foul gases that accumulated in the
ponds when froen over.
Y.:'. California fear.
.Amlm'. car. catch a cold this kind of
weather. We advise our readers to pur
chase of Dowty & Keener a bottle of
SANTA Al'.IK. the California King of
Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Coughs azl Croup Cures, and keep it
handy. Tin pleasing to the taste and
death to the above complaints. Sold at
$1.00 a bottle or 3 for $50. CALIFOR
NIA CAT-B-CUBE gives immediate re.
:ef. The catarrh virus is soon displaced
by its healing and penetrating nature.
Give it a trial. Six months treatment
f 1.00, sent by mail 91.10.
W. F. GtntLET has been appointed as
sistant United States attorney for Ne
braska.
Strowbridge Broadcast Seeder. Niagara force-feed wagon lox seeder. Hos
ier broadcast force-feed eleven-foot seeder. The best broadcast seeder on wheels,
which will measure yonr grain and ground as it sown, and make a preltv fair
estimate of the crop. It will sow anything from a hair-gnmn timothv see! to a'
silk dress. Hoosier press drill. Climax disc harrow and seeder combined. Cli
max disc harrow without seeder attachments.
Plows and Cultivators.
tVier plows, Wier cultivators, Wier lever harrows, Wier listers, the onlv per
fect listers made, Wier cultivators for listed corn, something entirelv new. Come
and see it. Price 814, to correspond with the hard times.
Flying Dutchman riding plows, Flying Dutchman walking plows, Flving
Dutchman gang plows. Dandy cultivator, guaranteed to scour in anv soil. Little
Joker tongueless cultivator. Orvis plows. Orvis cultivators. Orvis" hollow steel
teeth harrows. Budlong disc cultivators. Standard corn planter. Standard check
rower, the simplest and strongest check rower made. Drops the -orn in the
right place every time. Maud S. Cultivator, tho queen or all cultivators, h.ut
won the race in corn field as Maud S. has on everv nice trade.
Corn Planters, Drills and Check
Rowers.
Moliue Champion corn planter, drill and check rower combined. Three"
machines in one, and for the price of one. Come and see it. Twill do vour
poor heart good. Tait check rower. Peoria Advance corn planters and check
rowers.
Mowers, Binders and Hay Rakes.
Standard mowers, four-, five-, si v-, and seven-foot cut; can bo drawn bv two
horses in the heaviest grass. If you don't believe it, buy on and try it. Stand
ard hay rakes, Hoosier hay rakes, Tiger self-dump hav rake, which anvoue can
operate. Taylor No. 4 self-dump hay rake. Holiingsworth hay rakes.
Osborn binder, Osborn mower, Empire binder, simplest, strongest and light--,
est binder in Uncle Sam's dominions.
Threshers.
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The Minnesota Chief threshing machine:), f falladay wind rnillo.
Grinders and Shelters.
I X L feed grinders and corn shellers ami horse power.-).
of extras for everything in the line of implements. Anything
ordered on short notice.
BetndoH a full stock
not on hand will b
XS "r 3 r -y t la. i ia. g:
Goes at reduced prices. No letter place to huy Tor cash if uu have it. and if
you havn't there is no better placo to buy on time.
When you are in town come and see'and get a picture for the luby.
Becker's Block, Tliirteeutli awl L streets.
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LAND FOR SALE.
BaektaT Araka Salvr.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, ohilblalns,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by David Dowty. li
A FINE IMPROVED FAItM
for sale in Shell Crock valley,
near 'ltimru. containing 'JMI
acieit of land: atont VJU aciva
nnuer caiiiTauon; iu acre iir-tvily limlyrel. re
mainder inoHtly in clover and hint grata i'ilure
ana nay lanci; l-u mm tret, apples. i-ar,
cherry, plums, etc.. oin iirarinz: all kimls f
ornamental trw- and ulirnlw: l. full-l.irintr
Krapo Tines. Thafarm entire in fenced, nnd di
vided lntoamall field ly fence. Dwelling Iiinim)
or seven rooms, granary, corn cnl. Innc norm
tab! with ha -mow, cattle Inrn which holds M)
fonn of hay; ho hoiifce; i welln; running water
in paetnre. For farther pirticntara innnir at
Jocbxai. otlice. fir addrt-M, II. II., care of Jocii
W.U. Colombo. Nwbr. "i!matf
The Heart of tke Allaghaaie.
Writing of a recent trip aoross the
mountains of West Virginia a gifted
journalist says:
'Twilight on the grade is grand. The
mountain summits look like the bushy
tops of trees. The sun has-disappeared
in a ball of fire at his "junaping-off place."
but the vivid lighting of the western sky
by the still upturned illumininar face
below the horiaon ia in marked contrast
to the gathering shades behind the rash-
ing train. From shelf to shelf, from
crag to crag, from brink to brink, we al
most fly. lake a fhuriung transformation,
rendering; almost past belief the fact that
the scene is in the midst of the Allegha
nies, comes a hit of landscape garden
ing with all the beauties of walks and
hedges and bright hued flowers, s mountain-brooklet
tumbling through the cen
tre Buckhorn WalL the most noted
and most admired view that can be had
from any known point in the Alleghany
One of the men who has been trying
to wreck trains near xoungstown, O.,
has been arrested. He has made con
fession and implicates another man in
the wicked work.
rjf first importance. Your object ia com- range. To enable therosd to span the
In a recent article in the Youth's Com
panion, on how to cure a cold," the
writer advises a hot lemonade to be tak
et at bed time. It is a dangerous treat
ment, especially during the severe cold
weather of the winter months, as it opens
the pores of the akin and leaves the sys
tem in such a condition that another and
much more severe oold is almost certain
to be contracted. Many years oonstant
use and the experience of thousands of
persons oi all ages, has fully demonstrat
ed that there is nothing better for a
severe oold than Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. It acts in perfect harmony
with natare, relieves the lungs, liquefies
the tough tenacious mucous, making it
easier to expectorate, and restores the
system to a strong and healthy condi-
Fifty cent bottles for sal by all
Mr. T. A. Deroven. merchant. Derovcn.
La., says: ''The St. Patrick's IMlls went
like hot cake." People who have onee
tried them are never satisfied "with anv
other kind. Their action and reliability
as a cathartic is what makes them popu
lar. For sale by all druggists.
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Feathkhstoxe, representative from
the First district in Arkansas, has been
given his seat in the house.
Kpoek.
The transition from long, lingering
and painful sickness to robust health
marks an epoch in the life of the indi
vidual. Such a remarkable event is
treasurea in tne memory or the agency
whereby the good health has been at
tained is gratefully blessed. Hence it is
that so much ia heard in praise of Elec
tric Bitters. So many feel they owe
their restoration to health, to the use of
the great alterative and tonic. If you
are troubled with any disease of kidneys
liver or stomach of long or short stand
ing you will surely find relief by use of
Electric Bittersold at 50c and. $1 a bot-'
David Dowty'a drug store.
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